'Black Velvet’: Aboriginal women and their relations with white men in the Northern Territory, 1910-40
| dc.contributor.author | McGrath, Ann | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-26T00:16:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1984 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 'Black Velvet' was the term used to describe Aboriginal women with whom white men had sexual intercourse. The expression originated as nineteenth-century English military slang, and it is also the name of an Irish drink consisting of a mixture of stout and champagne or cider. Henry Lawson used it in the Australian context in 'Ballad of rouseabout', published 1899. Territorian Bill Harney, writer and ex-Aboriginal welfare officer elucidated: 'The surface of the skin was smooth, a feature that gave us bushies the saying of 'Black Velvet'. Undoubtedly there are numerous bushmen's explanations for the etymology of this evocative expression. | en_AU |
| dc.format | 36 pages | en_AU |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0006365574 | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116182 | |
| dc.provenance | The publisher permission to archive the version was received via email, archived in ERMS2550287; The permission was granted to ANU users only. ANU users need to login at the homepage and download the paper via the handle link of this record. | |
| dc.publisher | Fontana Collins | en_AU |
| dc.relation.ispartof | So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History | en_AU |
| dc.rights | © Kay Daniels (ed.) 1984 | en_AU |
| dc.source.uri | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9213363M/So_much_hard_work | en_AU |
| dc.subject | Australian History | en_AU |
| dc.subject | Aboriginal History | en_AU |
| dc.title | 'Black Velvet’: Aboriginal women and their relations with white men in the Northern Territory, 1910-40 | en_AU |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en_AU |
| dcterms.accessRights | ANU Staff and Student Access Only | en_AU |
| local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 297 | en_AU |
| local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 233 | en_AU |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Australian Centre for Indigenous History | en_AU |
| local.contributor.authoremail | ann.mcgrath@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
| local.contributor.authoruid | u4054197 | en_AU |
| local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u4005841 | en_AU |
| local.publisher.url | https://openlibrary.org/publishers/Fontana_Press | en_AU |
| local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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